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Item It’s Never Too Early to Start: Let’s Curate Your Online Scholarly Presence for Residency Applications(2025-04-25) Craven, Hannah J.; Shanks, Anthony L.; Pieczko, Brandon T.Introduction/Background: A student’s residency application includes various components such as personal statements, letters of recommendation, medical school transcripts and exam scores. With the shift to pass/fail exams, residency applications now rely more heavily on qualitative measures. Reviewers must evaluate applicants based on other markers of excellence, making scholarly activity documentation increasingly important. To better support IUSM students, we aim to teach both students and mentors how to effectively claim and promote their scholarly work online, enhancing their visibility and impact. This initiative aligns with the IUSM strategic plan to maximize learner success statewide, particularly the goal of ensuring learners are well-prepared for their next professional transition. Workshop objective: After our workshop, participants will be able to upload individual scholarly items to our institutional repository, IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks; list those works on their ORCiD profile; create a Google Scholar profile; understand basic individual research metrics; and consider any other online footprints Learning Goals: The goals of our workshop are to introduce the idea and benefit of a scholarly online presence to students at any stage of their undergraduate medical education career; set students up with this career-long skill of maintaining their works, which is much easier to begin curating earlier in their career; and encourage early career students to explore options for research projects with faculty. Methods: Participants will be introduced to the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). The online ERAS worksheet will be utilized, particularly the publications section. We will demonstrate how to upload a scholarly work to our institutional repository. The persistent link created from our upload can be placed in the ERAS publication section, in our online ORCID profile, and will appear in Google Scholar after a few weeks. Resources will be shared encouraging students to consider collaborating on research projects with faculty.Item Uploading Your IUSM Medical Education Day Works to IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks(2025-04-25) Craven, Hannah J.; Pieczko, Brandon T.This handout is intended for people presenting at the 2025 IUSM Education Day conference to assist with uploading their posters or presentations to IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks.Item Informatics Interventions for Maternal Morbidity: Scoping Review(JMIR Publications, 2025-03-25) Inderstrodt, Jill; Stumpff, Julia C.; Smollen, Rebecca; Sridhar, Shreya; El-Azab, Sarah; Ojo, Opeyemi; Bowns, Brendan; Haggstrom, David A.Background: Women have been entering pregnancy less healthy than previous generations, placing them at increased risk for pregnancy complications. One approach to ensuring effective monitoring and treatment of at-risk women is designing technology-based interventions that prevent maternal morbidities and treat perinatal conditions. Objective: This scoping review evaluates what informatics interventions have been designed and tested to prevent and treat maternal morbidity. Methods: MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane Library were searched to identify relevant studies. The inclusion criteria were studies that tested a medical or clinical informatics intervention; enrolled adult women; and addressed preeclampsia, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), preterm birth, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-defined severe maternal morbidity, or perinatal mental health conditions. Demographic, population, and intervention data were extracted to characterize the technologies, conditions, and populations addressed. Results: A total of 80 studies were identified that met the inclusion criteria. Many of the studies tested for multiple conditions. Of these, 73% (60/82) of the technologies were tested for either GDM or perinatal mental health conditions, and 15% (12/82) were tested for preeclampsia. For technologies, 32% (28/87) of the technologies tested were smartphone or tablet applications, 26% (23/87) were telehealth interventions, and 14% (12/87) were remote monitoring technologies. Of the many outcomes measured by the studies, almost half (69/140, 49%) were patient physical or mental health outcomes. Conclusions: Per this scoping review, most informatics interventions address three conditions: GDM, preeclampsia, and mental health. There may be opportunities to treat other potentially lethal conditions like postpartum hemorrhage using proven technologies such as mobile apps. Ample gaps in the literature exist concerning the use of informatics technologies aimed at maternal morbidity. There may be opportunities to use informatics for lesser-targeted conditions and populations.Item Parental Experiences of Genetic Testing(AAP, 2024-03) Groden, Catherine M.; Vetter, Cecelia J.; Salih, Zeynep N. I.; Ruth Lilly Medical Library, School of MedicineGenetic testing is increasingly used in clinical practice in the neonatal period, including in NICUs. This testing may have psychological consequences for parents. To best support families, neonatal clinicians should be aware of the various ways in which parents view and respond to genetic testing. In this review, we summarize research on the parental experience of having a newborn infant undergo genetic testing.Item Amy Blevins, Medical Library Association President, 2023–2024(University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh, 2025) Kiscaden, Elizabeth; Craven, Hannah J.; Rios, Gabriel R.; Harris, Ryan; Nicholson, Joey; Ruth Lilly Medical Library, School of MedicineAmy Blevins served as the Medical Library Association president from 2023-2024. In this presidential biography, the authors outline a history of Blevins' recruitment to the career, career development, and impact on the association and the profession.Item A scoping review of librarian involvement in competency-based medical education(University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh, 2025) Cyrus, John W.; Zeigen, Laura; Knapp, Molly; Blevins, Amy E.; Patterson, Brandon; Ruth Lilly Medical Library, School of MedicineObjective: A scoping review was undertaken to understand the extent of literature on librarian involvement in competency-based medical education (CBME). Methods: We followed Joanna Briggs Institute methodology and PRISMA-ScR reporting guidelines. A search of peer-reviewed literature was conducted on December 31, 2022, in Medline, Embase, ERIC, CINAHL Complete, SCOPUS, LISS, LLIS, and LISTA. Studies were included if they described librarian involvement in the planning, delivery, or assessment of CBME in an LCME-accredited medical school and were published in English. Outcomes included characteristics of the inventions (duration, librarian role, content covered) and of the outcomes and measures (level on Kirkpatrick Model of Training Evaluation, direction of findings, measure used). Results: Fifty studies were included of 11,051 screened: 46 empirical studies or program evaluations and four literature reviews. Studies were published in eight journals with two-thirds published after 2010. Duration of the intervention ranged from 30 minutes to a semester long. Librarians served as collaborators, leaders, curriculum designers, and evaluators. Studies primarily covered asking clinical questions and finding information and most often assessed reaction or learning outcomes. Conclusions: A solid base of literature on librarian involvement in CBME exists; however, few studies measure user behavior or use validated outcomes measures. When librarians are communicating their value to stakeholders, having evidence for the contributions of librarians is essential. Existing publications may not capture the extent of work done in this area. Additional research is needed to quantify the impact of librarian involvement in competency-based medical education.Item The role of information science within the clinical translational science ecosystem(Cambridge University Press, 2024-11-27) Ragon, Bart; Seymour, Anne; Whipple, Elizabeth C.; Surkis, Alisa; Haberstroh, Amanda; Muilenburg, Jennifer; Rethlefsen, Melissa L.; Aspinall, Erinn E.; Deaver, Jill; Dexter, Nadine; Barger, Renae; Contaxis, Nicole; Glenn, Emily J.; Hinton, Elizabeth; Kern, Barbara; Little, Micquel; Pickett, Keith; Sevetson, Erika; Tao, Donghua; von Isenburg, Megan; Werner, Debra A.; Wheeler, Terrie R.; Holmes, Kristi; Ruth Lilly Medical Library, School of MedicineAcademic health sciences libraries ("libraries") offer services that span the entire research lifecycle, positioning them as natural partners in advancing clinical and translational science. Many libraries enjoy active and productive collaborations with Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program hubs and other translational initiatives like the IDeA Clinical & Translational Research Network. This article explores areas of potential partnership between libraries and Translational Science Hubs (TSH), highlighting areas where libraries can support the CTSA Program's five functional areas outlined in the Notice of Funding Opportunity. It serves as a primer for TSH and libraries to explore potential collaborations, demonstrating how libraries can connect researchers to services and resources that support the information needs of TSH.Item Cell-specific transcriptional signatures of vascular cells in Alzheimer’s disease: perspectives, pathways, and therapeutic directions(Springer Nature, 2025-01-29) Chaudhuri, Soumilee; Cho, Minyoung; Stumpff, Julia C.; Bice, Paula J; İş, Özkan; Ertekin-Taner, Nilüfer; Saykin, Andrew J.; Nho, KwangsikAlzheimer’s disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease that is marked by profound neurovascular dysfunction and significant cell-specific alterations in the brain vasculature. Recent advances in high throughput single-cell transcriptomics technology have enabled the study of the human brain vasculature at an unprecedented depth. Additionally, the understudied niche of cerebrovascular cells, such as endothelial and mural cells, and their subtypes have been scrutinized for understanding cellular and transcriptional heterogeneity in AD. Here, we provide an overview of rich transcriptional signatures derived from recent single-cell and single-nucleus transcriptomic studies of human brain vascular cells and their implications for targeted therapy for AD. We conducted an in-depth literature search using Medline and Covidence to identify pertinent AD studies that utilized single-cell technologies in human post-mortem brain tissue by focusing on understanding the transcriptional differences in cerebrovascular cell types and subtypes in AD and cognitively normal older adults. We also discuss impaired cellular crosstalk between vascular cells and neuroglial units, as well as astrocytes in AD. Additionally, we contextualize the findings from single-cell studies of distinct endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, fibroblasts, and pericytes in the human AD brain and highlight pathways for potential therapeutic interventions as a concerted multi-omic effort with spatial transcriptomics technology, neuroimaging, and neuropathology. Overall, we provide a detailed account of the vascular cell-specific transcriptional signatures in AD and their crucial cellular crosstalk with the neuroglial unit.Item Accessibility assessment of the Midwest Chapter of MLA(2024-10-11) Pionke, JJ; Biszaha, Anna; Chrisagis, Ximena; DeCaro, Jessica; Feldman, Jennifer; Natal, Gerald; Regan, Matt; Gilbert Redman, Jessica D.; Shannon, Carol; Stumpff, Julia C.; Westall, SaraIn 2023, JJ Pionke became the President of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association. He determined that for his presidential year, he would form a task force to determine the accessibility of the Chapter and remediate accessibility issues as appropriate. Case Presentation: To accomplish the accessibility audit of the organization, Pionke formed an Accessibility Task Force that was time limited to one year. Task force meetings were held once a month to keep people accountable and to share out progress and requests for assistance. The task force was broken up into four teams: annual meeting, policy, social media, and website. Task force members could be on more than one team. The goals of each team were generally the same: what are other organizations doing, what do we have already if anything, and develop best practices/policy/etc. as needed. Conclusions: The teams fulfilled their mandate by creating best practices/guidelines/policies documents. Some accessibility remediation was needed for the chapter website. The task force’s findings and materials were shared out among the Chapter as well as passed on to other Chapters, many of whom had expressed interest in our results.Item Revitalizing Hypothesis(Research Caucus of the Medical Library Association, 2021) Foster, Erin D.; Perryman, Carol L.; Ruth Lilly Medical Library, School of Medicine